Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy | Page 5

Sahib--BOOK)

THE BIG LEAGUE MIRACLE
Adventure--1928--November 15
ON THE ROAD TO ALLAH'S HEAVEN
Adventure--1928--December 1
GOLDEN RIVER
Adventure--1929--January 1
A TUCKET OF DRUMS
Adventure--1929--February 1
HO FOR LONDON TOWN
Argosy-All-Story--1929--February 2 to February 23 (Serial 4 parts)
(W.H.--BOOK) (The Queen's Warrant--POCKETBOOK)
IN OLD NARADA FORT
Adventure--1929--February 15
ASOKA'S ALIBI
Argosy-All-Story--March 9 to March 23--1929 (Serial 3 parts)
BY ALLAH WHO MADE TIGERS
Argosy-All-Story--1929--April 27 to May 11 (Serial 3 parts)
FLAME OF CRUELTY
Romance--1929--August
THE INVISIBLE GUNS OF KABUL
Adventure--1929--October 1 to December 1 (Serial 5 parts) (Cock O'

the North--BOOK)
CONSISTENT ANYHOW
Adventure--1930--February 1
THE AFFAIR AT KALIGAON
Argosy--1930--May 24 to June 7 (Serial 3 parts)
KING OF THE WORLD
Adventure--1930--November 15 to February 15, 1931 (Serial 7 parts)
(Jimgrim--BOOK)
ELEPHANT SAHIB
Argosy--1930--December 6 to January 10, 1931 (Serial 6 parts)
BLACK FLAG
Adventure--1931--May 1
THE MAN ON THE MAT
Adventure--1931--August 1
THE BABU
Adventure--1931--October 1
THE EYE TEETH OF O'HARA
Adventure--1931--November 1 (The Valiant View--BOOK)
CASE 13
Adventure--1932--January 1
CHULLUNDER GHOSE, THE GUILELESS

Adventure--1932--March 1
WATU (a reminiscence)
Adventure--1932--April 1
WHITE TIGERS
Adventure--1932--August 1 to August 15 (Serial 2 parts)
C.I.D.
Adventure--1933--March 1 to April 15 (Serial 4 parts) (C.I.D.--BOOK)
THE MAN FROM POONCH
Argosy--1933--June 17 (The Valiant View--BOOK)
THE RED SEA CARGO
Adventure--1933--August
MILK OF THE MOON
Argosy--1933--September 17
CAMERA
Argosy--1934--January 6
THE GODS SEEM CONTENTED
Argosy--1934--September 15
BENGAL REBELLION
Blue Book--1935--January
BATTLE STATIONS

Adventure--1935--May 1 (Purple Pirate--BOOK)
CLEOPATRA'S PROMISE
Adventure--1935--June 15 (Purple Pirate--BOOK)
PURPLE PIRATE
Adventure--1935--August 15 (Purple Pirate--BOOK)
FLEETS OF FIRE
Adventure--1935--October 1 (Purple Pirate--BOOK)
THE WOLF OF THE PASS
All Aces--1936--Hay
THE ELEPHANT WAITS
Short Stories--1937--February 25
COMPANION IN ARMS
Adventure--1937--November
ROMAN HOLIDAY
Golden Fleece--1938--October
THE NIGHT THE CLOCKS STOPPED
Adventure--1941--March
ODDS ON THE PROPHET
Short Stories--1941--August 10
FULL MOON

Famous Fantastic Mysteries--1953--February (Full Moon--BOOK)
(There Was A Door--BOOK)

Written under the pen-name of WALTER GALT these tales of Billy
Blain, pugilist--all from Adventure Magazine
THE GONER 1912--February
THE SECOND RUNG 1912--June
DORG'S LUCK 1912--August
ACROSS THE COLOR LINE 1912--October
LOVE AND WAR 1912--November
THE TOP OF THE LADDER 1912--December
ONE YEAR LATER 1913--February
NOTHING DOING 1914--September
THE RETURN OF BILLY BLAIN 1914--November
BILLY BLAIN EATS BISCUITS 1916--January
BILLY BLAIN'S ONIONS AND GARLIC 1916--February

Two articles under this pen-name
FRANCIS BANNERMAN--A MAN OF MYSTERY & HISTORY
1912--May
ELEPHANT HUNTING FOR A LIVING 1912--July

His sagas; with a story sequence of various characters by Dr. J. Lloyd
Eaton
Talbot Mundy was a prolific writer of historical tales and stories of
adventure-intrigue, his particular forte being tales of India and the Near
East. Twelve of his novels are listed in THE CHECKLIST OF
FANTASTIC LITERATURE, with themes of mysticism, black versus
white magic, lost-race, and even true science fiction. Many others of
his stories are borderline fantastics.
In the field of fantastic literature his works are highly prized (often
highly priced, also) and many such readers find, possibly to their
surprise, that they also enjoy his other stories. This may be due in some
part to the fact that Mundy used the same characters over and over
again, in novels in which each played the lead and as sub-characters in
other novels. One keeps meeting old friends.
This leads to one difficulty in reading Mundy, however. If one is going
to meet these characters, it is much more enjoyable to watch them
develop from birth, so to speak--and not vice versa, like coming into a
theatre in the middle of the picture. But, a reading sequence is a real
difficulty. Each story is complete in itself, but the characters are
re-shuffled into various combinations and any one of them may, and
does, strike off into a novel of his own, only to reappear at a later date
in some combination with other such characters. It is confusing, to say
the least. To add to the confusion, all or nearly all of Mundy's stories
first appeared in magazines, largely in Adventure, but later in Argosy.
As his popularity grew, his older stories were republished in book form,
as well as each of his new novels, so that the date of publication of his
books means nothing as far as reading chronology is concerned.
Before going any further, it may be interesting to digress a bit, and
consider some of his earlier stories in Adventure Magazine, and more
particularly as they apply to his books. No attempt is being made to
give a complete listing of his magazine stories here. Adventure
Magazine began publication in November 1910, but the earliest issue
that I have for reference is that of August 1911. This contains a short
story by Mundy, "The Phantom Battery." By this time he was

publishing five to eight short stories per year. These early stories were
mostly about the British Army and the most important was his "The
Soul of A Regiment," (February 1913) a tale of native troops in the